Job 1:14
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
American King James Version (AKJV)
And there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
American Standard Version (ASV)
that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:
Webster's Revision
And there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
World English Bible
that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
English Revised Version (ERV)
that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
Clarke's Job 1:14 Bible Commentary
The asses feeding beside them - אתנות athonoth, the she-asses, which appear to have been more domesticated, as of more worth and use than the others, both for their milk and their work.
Barnes's Job 1:14 Bible Commentary
And there came a messenger unto Job - Hebrew מלאך mal'âk; the word usually rendered "angel," appropriately rendered "messenger" here. The word properly means "one who is sent."
The oxen were plowing - Hebrew "the cattle" (בקר bâqâr) including not merely "oxen," but probably also "cows;" see the notes at Job 1:3.
And the asses - Hebrew אתון 'âthôn "she-asses." The "sex" is here expressly mentioned and Dr. Good maintains that it should be in the translation. So it is in the Septuagint αἱ θήλειαι ὄνοι hai thēleiai onoi. So Jerome, "asinoe." The reason why the sex is specified is, that female asses, on account of their milk, were much more valuable than males. On this account they were preferred also for traveling; see the notes at Job 1:3.
Beside them - Hebrew "By their hands," that is, by their sides, for the Hebrew יד yâd is often used in this sense; compare the notes at Isaiah 33:21.
Wesley's Job 1:14 Bible Commentary
1:14 Messenger, &c. - One messenger immediately followed another; Satan so ordering by God's permission, that there might seem to be more than ordinary displeasure of God against him in his troubles, and that he might not have leisure to recollect himself, but be overwhelmed by a complication of calamities.